The Royal School, Armagh
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The Royal School | |
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Location | |
College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DH, Northern Ireland United Kingdom | |
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Type | Voluntary Grammar |
Religious affiliation(s) | Church of Ireland |
Established | 1608 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Website | royalschool |
The Royal School, Armagh is a
History
One of a number of free schools created in 1608 by King
Originally intended to be sited at
Each pupil is assigned to a house – Darcy, Rokeby, Beresford or Armstrong – which are named after former Church of Ireland archbishops. Successive archbishops have chaired the board of governors for over four centuries. In 2008, the school celebrated its quatercentenary along with the four other 1608 Royal Schools. To mark the occasion, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited the school. A history of the 1608 Royal Schools was produced in the same year by former headmaster, Thomas Duncan.[citation needed]
Royal sport
The school was the inaugural winner of the
The school won the Schools Cup in 2004, beating
The girls' hockey team won the
Alumni
The Old Armachians is a social organisation consisting of former pupils of the Royal School. Although at one time the Royal School educated politicians and novelists, its most recent notable exports have been rugby players.[citation needed]
- Tommy Bowe – Irish rugby international and British and Irish Lion
- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769–1822) – British Foreign Secretary 1812–1822[8]
- Frederic Charles Dreyer – Captain of HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland, British representative at the League of Nations Military Committee [citation needed]
- Mervyn A. Ellison (1909–1963) – astronomer
- Sir Reg Empey – Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (2005–10)
- Willie Faloon – flanker for Connacht Rugby
- Leonard Gillespie – appointed Physician-General to the fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson in 1804 aboard HMS Victory.[9]
- Frank Harris (1855–1931) – British editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher
- John Lennox – professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford
- George Green Loane (1865–1945) – classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author
- Sir John Hall Magowan – British ambassador to Venezuela 1948–1951
- Richard Maunsell (1868–1944) – chief mechanical engineer of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland and the Southern Railway of England
- Stuart Neville (b. 1972) – author best known for his novel The Twelve or, as it is known in the United States, The Ghosts of Belfast
- Edward Pakenham (1778–1815) – British Army general
- Thomas Preston (1860–1900) – scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy
- Samuel Shephard – recipient of the George Cross and a serving Officer in the Royal Marine Commandos
- John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney – deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001
- Governor General of India, attended the Royal School in the 1770s
References
- ^ "The Royal School Armagh". Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ "Royal School Armagh". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "History of the Royal School, Armagh". royalschoolarmagh.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "INFORMATION FOR PARENTS – 2011–2012 SECONDARY DEPARTMENT". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Armagh win the Schools' Cup". BBC Sport. 17 March 2004. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ "Young Irish star dies". BBC Sport. 27 March 2004. Archived from the original on 27 May 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ "Second tragedy hits Royal School in Armagh". The Irish Emigrant. 1 August 2004. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-85738-186-6.
At the age of eight Robert was sent to the Royal School Armagh, a well-known Anglican grammar school ...
- ^ Ulster Medical Journal Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, zetnet.co.uk; accessed 12 March 2017.